Physicists are planning to create lasers powerful enough to tear space itself apart!
The Chinese Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF) is planning to build an extreme laser named Station of Extreme Light (SEL). This laser should fire pulses as strong as 100 petawatts in the very fabric of reality in 2023.
Lasers of different colors - Source: Wikimedia Commons
There is a laser laboratory in Shanghai, where physicists Ruxin Li and his colleagues break records with the most powerful laser pulses ever seen on this planet. At the heart of the SULF, there is a sapphire enhanced with titanium that is thanks to a complex lens system capable of producing laser pulses at the incredible intensity of 5.3 million billion watts, or 5.3 petawatts. These pulses are extremely intensive but very very short. Each lasts less than one billionth of a second. The laser in SULF are being constantly improved on and until the end of 2018, they would like to create pulses as powerful as 10 petawatts. If they manage to do that, the power output of such a pulse will be thousand times stronger than the output of all electrical grids in the world. But again, for a very short time.
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10 petawatts may sound impressive enough but Li and his coworkers have much bigger ambitions. They are preparing to build the unique Station of Extreme Light that should be capable of producing pulses of up to 100 petawatts. It should begin to fire its laser in 2023. The physicists are even sure what could happen as it will produce temperatures and pressures we don’t see on Earth. One of the most impressive possible outcomes is that such intensive laser pulses could tear vacuum apart. If such a thing as tearing the vacuum apart happens it could be the application of the famous Einstein’s equation E=mc2. SEL could be potentially capable to create matter from an insane amount of energy. It is much harder than it sounds, but in essence, it should work. If SEL actually manages to rip vacuum apart it could change particle physics forever. Traditional particle accelerators could be, at least partially, replaced with quicker and cheaper laser accelerators.
The Chinese aren’t the only ones working on “ultimate” lasers. Russian scientists created a design for the Exawatt Center of Extreme Light Studies (XCELS) that should produce up to 180 petawatt pulses. American physicists at the University of Rochester are developing the Optical Parametric Amplifier Line (OPAL) that is capable of producing 75 petawatt pulses. And the Japanese are working on a laser with 30 petawatt pulses. But all seems to indicate that the winner will be China with its Station of Extreme Light.
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tearing through space might not be a good idea but the concept it really cool.
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They are planning to build another CERN? Why? The first one shouldn't have ever been built.
Well, first I don't think they are planning to build another CERN. The article doesn't even mention CERN at all.
And why do you think it should have never been built?
CERN was built to tear space itself apart.
They were going to build it in texas, but texas doesn't have the proper earth to accept all that energy. So, the built it where it is because of all the crystaline rock there. Very strange if what you are trying to do is actually smash atoms.
Now, if you had a car, and wanted to understand how it worked, would you tear it apart and smash pieces of it together to find out about car-ness? By doing so, you would never find out about car-ness because you are destroying the very thing that is the car.
That is what the people at CERN are trying to do with atoms, if that is indeed what they are trying to do. They could be that stupid. But, my money is on them trying to rip space itself apart.
I don't think you really understand what they are doing at CERN man. They aren't trying to tear space apart, they are smashing atoms together to create high-energy situations similar to how space looked at the very beginning.
Also, comparing smashing atoms to smashing cars isn't even like comparing apples to oranges.... it's like... well... comparing atoms to cars. They are just so fundamentally different, obviously you won't test them the same way.
I don't think you really understand what they are doing at CERN man.
So, "science" has "disproven" the aether. In the Michelson-Morley experiment which only tested one set of hypothesis, and barely (the minimum amount tests) at that. It was like they were trying to measure the height of ocean waves in directions parallel to earth. So, of course they didn't find anything.
The aether exists. Nikola Tesla said so, along with many others. And, it is quite easy to see when you throw out all the wrong think in science books today. Go back and read the books Tesla read.
Since the aether exists, atoms do not work anything like what "science" currently says. Atoms are not empty shells, with a tiny center.
So, how much can you learn from a computer chip after you let the magic smoke out? That is probably a better analogy of what they are doing at CERN.
Clif High talks about CERN every once in a while, if you want another perspective. CERN will soon be a museum.
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STOPIt would only take 400 people to get the iron for their blood to make a sword forged from your enemies blood LOL
so for lasers how many enemies for a light saer/ How many midichlroians would you have to get fro,m how much jedi blood to forge a kyber crystal enough for a lightsaber!
Now how many lightsavers would it take?
hah Scisteem saw
cool! wondering about the real life use later... but it looks impressive